Category «Kindertransport»

Win the world’s biggest jackpot Heini Halberstam (11 September 1926 1 – 25 January 2014) was a British mathematician , working in the field of analytical number theory . 2 He is one of the two mathematicians from which the Elliott-Halberstam conjecture was named. 3 He was born in Most, Czechoslovakia and died in Champaign, …

Karen Gershon , born Kaethe Loewenthal (1923-1993) was a writer and poet British born in Germany. He was able to flee, with fifteen years, to Great Britain in December of 1938. His book “We came as Childen: A Collective Autobiography” uses a number of kindertransport testimonials to construct a unitary. One of his best-known poems, …

Hedy Wachenheimer Epstein ( Freiburg , 15 of August of 1924 – St. Louis , Missouri , 26 of maypole of 2016 ) it was a political activist 1 2 German – American 3 known for its support for the Palestinian cause through the International Solidarity Movement (International Solidarity Movement). 4 Born in Freiburg in …

Frank Helmut Auerbach ( 29 as April as 1931 (85 years), Berlin , Germany) is a German painter nationalized British in 1947. 1 Biography Son of the lawyer Max Auerbach and the amateur painter Charlotte Nora Burchardt was born in Berlin but thanks to the writer Iris Origo , was sent to England in 1939 …

Ilse Aichinger ( Vienna , 1 as November as 1921 – November as November as 2016 ) 1 was an writer Austrian , known for having reported the persecution to which he was subjected by the Nazis because of his Jewish origin. 2 Life and work Aichinger was born in 1921 along with his twin …

Nicholas Winton ( Hampstead , London , 19 of maypole of 1909 – Slough , Berkshire , 1 of July of 2015 ) 1 was a philanthropist British origin Jew who saved 669 Jewish children from death at the hands of Nazi Germany just before the start Of World War II in 1939 , inside …

In history, it is known by the name of Kindertransport ( “Transporting children”) to the transfer of some 10,000 children Jews , without parents, from Germany , Poland , Austria and Czechoslovakia , the United Kingdom , in order to make them safe from The anti-Jewish political criminals of Nazism . Displacement of children and …